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homes',. Mr. Moriarity felt possible the answer is to keep changling faces on the Board until we get somebody who is going to hear jus. He again referred to running a corporation and noted that he does not believe in zero budgeting where you spend whatever surplus you have and zero out at budget time. Chairman Scurlock advised that zero budgeting has not been the attitude of this Commission, and he further pointed out that there is a basic difference between running a corporation and government. In a corporation, you can divest yourself of the losers, but we can't drop mental health, law enforcement, the jail,! etc. Mr. Moriarity continued to ask pertinent financial questions, and Chairman Scurlock believed with his business backg ound, Mr. Moriarity could assist the county in the budge,ary process and he would like to have him serve on the County Finance Committee. Mr. Moriarity indicated that he would be interested, and then asked if tonight's meeting is just an exercise in futility and whether we are here tonight just because the law requires two public hearings before the budget is adopted. The Commissioners assured him that this was not an exercise in futility, and Commissioner Bird felt that the people would be surprJsed to find that cuts will be made as a result of the input of this meeting. Mr. Moriarity felt strongly that we have to tell Tallahassee that we cannot accept these mandates to increase services any longer, and Commissioner Wheeler suggested that we all go up to Tallahassee together and protest. inda Woodard, 111 15th Avenue, Vero Beach, asked if the old jail ould be used to alleviate the overcrowding at the new Jail, and C mmissioner Wheeler explained that the old jail is in such a deplorable state that there is no way the DOC would relicense that facility. 17 BOOK 69 PACE 2418 d